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Follow the Forward’s Jewish News stories, posts and articles about Jewish actor Natalie Portman
Follow the Forward’s Jewish News stories, posts and articles about Jewish actor Natalie Portman
Follow the Forward’s Jewish News stories, posts and articles about Jewish actor Natalie Portman
It’s a well-known saying that the mark of a truly great person is having a story about encountering the British actor Bill Nighy. Okay, maybe not, but both Rachel Weisz and I have one such story, so the saying can’t be far behind. Here’s Weisz’s, according to Jenny Singer’s report on a recent talk she…
After Natalie Portman announced that she would withdraw from the Genesis Prize awards ceremony in Israel to protest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, one of her harshest American critics has been the Zionist Organization of America and its president, Morton Klein. Now, Klein has stepped it up a notch, drawing criticism in the process. “Natalie…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Actress Natalie Portman originally told the Genesis Prize that she was canceling her participation in the award ceremony in Jerusalem over Israel’s actions in quelling Palestinian demonstrations in Gaza. Hadashot in a report Monday night quoted an email from Portman’s representatives dated April 2. “We have followed the recent news from Gaza with growing…
The Russian billionaires behind the Israeli award that Natalie Portman snubbed last week are mentioned in the controversial Steele dossier, which details alleged connections between Donald Trump’s campaign and Russia. Mikhail Fridman, Petr Aven and German Khan, who fund the $1 million annual Genesis Prize, are listed in the intelligence package compiled by former British…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Natalie Portman’s statement explaining why she declined to attend an award ceremony in Israel in her honor was a pointed rebuke, and of a particular individual. “I did not want to appear as endorsing Benjamin Netanyahu,” she said of the Israeli prime minister. But it also was an intimate and tactile embrace…
American pro-Israel organizations normally hew to the Israeli government’s line on controversial issues. But after Natalie Portman announced last week that she would not travel to Israel to accept the Genesis Prize because of her opposition to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli government reacted with fury — while their American allies did not…
Ever since the news broke Thursday night, the Forward’s coverage of Natalie Portman’s decision not to accept the Genesis Prize in Jerusalem didn’t just hit a nerve. It lit up the whole body. Weekend traffic to our website was the highest in a year, with both news stories and opinion pieces attracting readers, while the…
For Andrew Goldblatt, a junior at Tufts University, Natalie Portman’s decision not to attend an awards ceremony to protest Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s policies signals a potential turning point in the discourse on Israel for young American Jews. “It certainly feels like a new moment for such a prominent and proud Israeli to take the…
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